Silly Polly Beast

Крайне интересный проект, встреченный мной за последнее время и который, самое важное, смог захватить моё внимание (притом, что очень редко я задерживаюсь в играх, которые меня на зацепили). Данная игра давно лежала у меня в списке желаемого и как же глупо с моей стороны было оставить её на столь долгое время и приобрести лишь пару месяцев спустя. Что я могу сказать после прохождения. Играется игра безумно приятно. В прохождении не сложна, а для трайхардеров есть режим со смертью от одной тычки. Боссы могут потребовать некоторого времени и то я бы связал это отчасти с тем, что играл на клавомыши, хотя игра и интерфейсом, и камерой, и автоприцеливанием говорит о хорошем опыте, при игре с геймпадом. Сюжетно игрушка тоже порадовала. Сцены с флешбеками о глав героине и её сестре сильно напоминали мне Life Is Strange, толь чем-то "бунтарским" в поведении персонажей, толь чем-то другим, что я не могу объяснить. В любом случае, мотивация героини, её ненависть и злоба к определённым личностям ясна и обоснована. Визуально игра также радует глаз. Я лично поклонник таких игр, в которых камера привязана к локации, что добавляет некой кинематографичности сценам. Где-то горизонт завялят, где-то часть "слоя", на котором находится герой, перекроют декорацией. Вся локация из 4-ой (надеюсь не ошибся с цифрой) главы с приютом, своим расположением камеры вообще напомнила The Coma: Recut (в том числе и геймлейно была похожа на то, как играется Кома) И, как я понял, над игрой работал соотечественник. Хотя это и не должно быть каким-то особым плюсом, по-простому приятно, что такие игры делают наши люди; что они могут создавать и работать над проектами такого качества. Определённый респект разработчику. А всем, кто ещё не играл и сомневается в приобретении - рекомендую к прохождению

Un muy buen juego

С первых кадров видно, что игра с душой.

polished art-style, nice gameplay

While I don't think the game is perfect, it is really good for what it tries to be. The story and gameplay are really good (Though episode 4 at the school was pretty annoying and a bit of a slog to get through) and I like the worldbuilding, and going deeper into the lore and figuring out somethings that are really surprising that changed the way I viewed the game. Initially, one of my gripes with the game were the lack of character dimensions. Like most of the fog people you can interact with don't really have a personality outside of just doing the one thing they were designed to do, and it kinda just leaves it like that. And when the station gets raided and everyone there except for Eyey died, it kinda ruined that extra shot of character development for the background character for me but before I had the thought that we could ask more about the fog peoples existence and lives and thought that was a wasted attempt at something more to the game. But when I started looking into the lore more and seeing analysis's on the game, I sorta understand why the creator left it this way. If this world is based on Polly's state of mind (given how a lot of areas are compared to places she previously visited), and the Embers in a way represent the beast within her while the rebels represent her guilt and last bit of compassion, I feel it would make sense that the characters are like this because they never really existed anyway? And were just a manifestation of Polly's feelings with some being towards certain people like the drunkard and Kai and Kato who were chased by the police at the beginning. At least from what i've learned so I may not be right. And given that Alice is hinted to not actually exist (which was shocking to me) really makes it all connect more back to Polly and her trauma. Her mission is not to find Alice, its to find a way out of her near insanity and eventually closing in and believing that there's still some hope of a better life for herself (which in a way is her Alice). And in either one of the "LEAVE" endings, if you have a little bit of imp power and don't throw away the lighter, it shows Alice at the end screenshot like as an allegory to Polly still holding on to that bit of regret she had for her past while in the other ending when Alice is on the train with Polly and she throws the lighter away Alice disappears, hinting at Polly moving on from her past. Compared to the "STAY" endings where Alice gets the chance to either shoot Polly or not shoot her depending if you have full imp power or not. Though this is what leads to my main issue with the story now, the ending. If Polly seemingly survived this entire world built upon a fractured version of the world thats in her mind (or of some sort), how did she just survive at the end? Because if you do the quick ending it shows that she died when she fell down the well. I don't think that was properly conveyed well now that I really tried to look deeper into the depth of the story. Because at first to me it was like a representation of a warrior fresh out of a war or something so it made a little more sense, she managed to get out, but the regrets she holds still remains while still holding on hope (I got the "LEAVE" ending without Alice in the train btw). But now it seems to be that, but makes less sense given the context of the story and knowing that kind of ruined the feel of the ending a little for me. But setting that aside, I'm not sure which "LEAVE" ending I'd prefer. I think their powerful in both of their own ways, one is learning to let go of the past and embrace your hope for the future and the other is even if you do let go of your past, the survivors guilt still has a little linger inside of you which I personally feel is a little more realistic given Polly's situation and how recent the fire was in the games storyline so if I absolutely had to choose, I'd choose that one. (I still really like both endings for what they symbolize, but it just doesn't make much sense given what's confirmed in the fast ending. I mean even the 'STAY" endings still sorta confuse me on that part. If its all in her head and depending on what you choose, you can have her let go of her past or embrace it which is cool, but it leads to another problem. The Kai and Kato in that world isn't the real version of them, neither is the drunkard, so them not being real shows the world she's in isn't actually real, but a world she made up. So unless she has like, the power of friendship or something and somehow survived because of all that, it just doesn't make sense that she lived). Sorry if I over explained myself, im not the best with analyzing myself and can get a bit overboard with these things. I definitely typed too much and it can feel less like a review and more of a scrappy essay, so sorry again about that.